Compliant press paints Warren’s avoidance of press as charming

As Elizabeth Warren walked through the marble corridors of the Capitol on Tuesday, she tried assiduously to keep a low profile. Walking arm in arm with Senator-elect Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Warren passed paintings of historic politicians, busts of former vice presidents, and the doors to the Senate floor they will enter once sworn in.

A small gaggle of reporters awaited one of the rising stars in Washington, and Warren knew it. She leaned into Baldwin and was overheard saying, “Pretend you’re talking to me.”

She answered no questions, and strolled into a luncheon as reporters from the biggest news organizations in the country scolded themselves for not getting more information.

It was a completely different feel from the day 2½ years ago when the last new Massachusetts senator entered the building. Legions of reporters awaited Scott Brown, who seemed happy to accept the mantle of stardom that Washington was offering. He shook hands with nearly everyone who extended one. Reporters and camera crews fought for space and congressional aides applauded and snapped photos as he walked the hallways.
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Warren seems eager to avoid any type of similar atmosphere. She does not seem interested in taking any advice from Brown (they have not had a meeting yet, and none is scheduled), and it was Brown on Tuesday who held the press conference in the Capitol, not Warren.

Neveryoumind that her behavior looks an awful lot like a newly elected public official unwilling to expose herself to any questions for the sake of the public. This is actually evidence of an admirable “low-key” humility, unlike that dastardly Scott Brown. Much like Obama, when Warren’s really bad at stuff, it will only be because she’s such an awesome person. Gonna be a fun six years.

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Further proof that they really are grooming her for national office. Can’t allow her to commit any gaffes or say anything that might be used against her in a national campaign. She has the Senate seat for as long as she wants it.

Warren is already ancient in presidential political terms. 8 years from now she’ll be in her deep 70s. My hope is she’s a one-termer, as I fully intend to find a way to get her prosecuted for practicing law in Massachusetts without a law license. The fraud will go no further.

Thanksgiving is next week so obviously she was focused on that event where the white folk eat with the not so white folk.

teejk on November 16, 2012 at 2:45 PM

Thanksgiving! Oh I do hope the Cambridge MA natives will be celebrating with authentic Indian dish’s from Pow Wow Chow.

The Pow Wow Chow cookbook . . .marks the first time [Elizabeth Warren] “comes out,” as it were, as an Indian, two years before she checked the box on the Penn Law School employment application form and began her meteoric rise in race-quota obsessed academia. Consider Pow Wow Chow her spring training, her exhibition season in lying about her alleged heritage. Within just a few years . . . she had transformed herself into Harvard’s “first woman of color.” . . .

Of the three allegedly Indian recipes she contributed to Pow Wow Chow, two were cribbed directly from The New York Times’ French-restaurant critic, who had been the chef at the most expensive Gallic restaurant in Manhattan, Le Pavilion. The chef said one of the recipes – for cold crab omelet – was a favorite dish of those well-know sachems and medicine men, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.